Various Artists - Premiere Portraits - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

The young Polish accordionist Maciej Frackiewicz takes us on a real adventure trip. On his album, one of the prizewinner recordings of the German Music Competition, he presents himself virtuosic, fast and at the same time sensitive and indulgent Frackiewicz pushes his instrument to the limits of what is possible. He presents contemporary and new music, often connected to his homeland, from Schnittke's surrealistic Gogol Suite to Krauze's Portrait of a Lover dedicated to the performer. If you are not yet an accordion fan, be careful by the time you listen to this , you will have become addicted to the instrument! Album Tracks 1. Gogol Suite 2. Sequenza XIII (Chanson) 3. Bukoliki - Bucolics 4. Cinquième Suite from Nouvelles Sui Es de Pièces de Clavecin 5. Dyad 6. Flora's Game from 3 Preludes 7. Portrait of a Lover 8.

Founded in 1982 in the former county town of Radnorshire in Wales, the Presteigne Festival has become a significant part of the Welsh cultural calendar and is internationally renowned for it's commissioning of new work, support of living composers and with a long tradition for the encouragement of young artists. The festival's orchestra, conducted by Artistic Director George Vass, explores a selection of the many new works premiered by the festival in this volume of recent British music for string orchestra, including a set of variations on the folk song 'Lovely Joan' - with a movement contributed by one of eight composers, concertos by Martin Butler and Joe Duddell and music by the veteran composer Hugh Wood. Album Tracks 1. Variations on 'Lovely Joan' 2. Concerto for Soprano Saxophone and Strings 3. Beginnings Three Early Songs, for Mezzo-Soprano and String Orchestra, Op. 54 4. Mnemonic, for Flute, Harp and String Orchestra 5. Divertimento, Op. 51

With InchPremière PortraitsInch Capriccio set an example for the support of young and talented artists and invite them to their première album for a worldwide audience. Melba Ramos, Puerto-Rican Soprano, studied at Pablo Casals Conservatory of Music in San Juan, capital city of her home country. She distinguished herself by winning several opera singing prizes. After being active at the Opera Studios in Cologne and in Wuppertal, she made her way as coloratura soprano to the Ensemble of the Volksoper in Vienna in 2003 to which she is still dedicated today. In parallel, numerous guest engagements led Melba Ramos to esteemed places to work at as the Komische Oper Berlin, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Staatsoper Unter den Linden and further Opera Houses in cities such as Bonn, Mannheim, Bremen, Kassel, Hamburg, Hannover, Saarbrücken, Nuremberg and many more.